L.A. to New York in 12 Minutes

Flying from London to Sydney takes 24 hours. No man should have to endure this -- especially with such low-quality film collections on offer. Which is why we were so excited about DARPA’s unveiling of its Falcon HTV-2.

The unmanned experimental aircraft is able to fly at 20 times the speed of sound -- which works out as roughly 13,000 mph. This would make long-haul journeys a thing of the past -- a flight between L.A. and New York would take no more than 12 minutes.

Unfortunately, at present, the plane, which was developed by The Pentagon and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is in the testing phase, and today's test ended in failure.

The military just lost the Falcon HTV-2 somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. The Falcon was attached to a ballistic missile, flown into space and was supposed to return back to Earth at super-high speed.

Despite the failure, DARPA’s main aim is to test the feasibility of the Falcon as a method of delivering a payload anywhere in the world in less than 60 minutes by 2025. If successful, it could signal the end of the days of watching seven rom-coms back-to-back en route to your long haul destination.